Bakhtin’s Dialogism, Intertextual Theories and Neo-Victorian Fiction

Lea Heiberg Madsen, ‘Medicine and Female Monstrosity in Neo-Victorian Fiction ...’

Victorian medical advances, along with Darwinian science, triggered an increasingly medicalised understanding of Human, which pervaded all spheres of 19 th century culture and came to play a crucial role in the Victorians’ perceptions of the body and mind. The medico-scientific differentiation between ‘complete’ and ‘incomplete’ subjects provided the backdrop for a wide range of pathological ca...

Malthusian and Neo-Malthusian Theories/

The sickroom in Victorian fiction: the art of being ill

topically oriented chapters. Langstaff, who trained in a Toronto proprietary school that could not offer a medical degree, followed by a year at Guy's Hospital where he studied with some of the medical luminaries of his age, brought new diagnostic and therapeutic medical science to the bedside. He adopted the flexible stethoscope, thermometer, and ophthalmoscope soon after their introduction in...

Dialogism and biosemiotics

The notions of ‘modeling’ and ‘interrelation’ play a pivotal role in Sebeok’s biosemiotics. In dialogue with Thomas A. Sebeok’s doctrine of signs, we propose to inquire into the action of modeling and interrelation in biosemiosis over the planet Earth, developing the concept of interrelation in terms of ‘dialogism’. Indeed, in the light of Sebeok’s biosemiotics we believe that the concept of di...

Open Access and Bakhtinian Dialogism

The article explores Open Access in the context of recent contributions in communication and public relations theory, notably Bakhtinian dialogism. Increasingly since the 1960s communication and public relations theory have shifted their focus away from one-way, asymmetrical to two-way, symmetrical models, thereby progressing to more equitable and interactive, multi-level conceptual models of d...